Titania gens

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The gens Titania was an obscure plebeian family at ancient Rome. No members of this gens are mentioned by Roman writers, but a number are known from inscriptions.

The nomen Titanius is formed using the suffix -anius, usually indicating derivation from place names.[1] The root of Titanius seems to be a cognomen, Titanus; Chase classifies the nomen among those gentilicia that either originated at Rome, or cannot be shown to have come from anywhere else.[2]

Members

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.
  • Gaius Titanius, the former master of Titania Charis, a freedwoman of Aquileia in Venetia and Histria.[3]
  • Titania C. l. Charis, a freedwoman, built a first- or second-century sepulchre at Aquileia for her husband, Sextus Teius Januarius, the freedman Quintus Catabronius Martialis, a woman named Titania Secundina, and two persons named Menandrus and Persicus.[3]
  • Titania Secundina, buried in a first- or second-century sepulchre at Aquileia, built by the freedwoman Titania Charis for her husband and several others.[3]
  • Titania Barbara, dedicated a second-century tomb at Vicus Fificulanus in Samnium for her son, Titus Opsturius Benivolus, aged twenty-seven. She is probably the same Barbara who dedicated a second-century monument at the same place for the freedman Titus Opsturius Dasius, probably her husband.[4]

Undated Titanii

  • Sextus Titanius Cinnamus, buried at Aveia in Samnium.[5]
  • Publius Titanius Successus, built a tomb at Rome for his wife, Porcia Zosima.[6]

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